Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

How stupid are these people?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Anne Laurie is a fucking hero in so many ways. ~ Betty Cracker

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

We still have time to mess this up!

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    The Golux

    I’m going to our public library to see a presentation on “Nanotechnology and the Internet”. Whoo-hoo!

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    Phyllis

    Pizza, beer, and finishing The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag by Alan Bradley. Flavia DeLuce rocks!!

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    Villago Delenda Est

    Pizza with the gang tonight.

    Next week, Quatro de Mayo! Chips and Guacamole! Fajitas! Margaritas!

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    Gus

    Playing softball. In 40 degree weather and drizzle. The day after we had just under two inches of rain. There will be much beer consumed.

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    WereBear

    Just put in my broccoli/cauliflower/ham casserole, this time with pepper jack cheese.

    If it weren’t so awesomely good, all that chopping would get to me. Each time, I swear I’ll go frozen veggies & precut ham cubes… and then I don’t.

    We have plans for Cinco de Mayo with friends. Looking so forward to it.

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    kdaug

    Buddy inbound from Boston, whereupon we shall sip Irish Whiskey (Tullamore Dew), shoot billiards, and discuss various topics with decreasing coherence.

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    lamh34

    I’ve been reading about this birther shit all day and I have just gotten madder and madder, not at the crazy birthers, but at all of those people who are saying that the President seems to have “caved into the pressure” of the birthers (fuck you Cenk Unger!!!!!).

    Honestly, I can’t even really express to ya’ll how much more angry I am at people like Cenk Unger.

  13. 13.

    Amir_Khalid

    Apparently Justin Bieber played a show in Kuala Lumpur a week ago, and I didn’t even know about it. Yay me!

    His dang 3D movie is still playing here, though. Boo.

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    MagicPanda

    @lamh34: I checked out FDL for the first time in a year today, and it has gotten really bad over there.

    When republicans get angry, they criticize everything democrats do.

    When democrats get angry, they criticize everything democrats do.

    Real smart.

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    MikeJ

    @lamh34: Back during the campaign I thought it was stupid for Obama to put his birth certificate on his web site. At the time I thought he was just caving in to the crazy people.

    As time went by, I saw that he actually made them look even crazier. Crazy enough that Fox News only wants to handle it at arm’s length.

    I can understand what people like Unger may think, but I believe in six months everyone will see it as another way to subtly kick the republicans in the shins.

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    lamh34

    @Corner Stone:

    A dog is gonna bark, a cat is gonna meow, and a racist fuckin’ birther is gonna be batshit crazy, BUT when allies decide that you are appeasing the enemy by finally confronting them, then hell yeah, I’m mad.

    As a Black person in American, Birther and repubs are exactly who we thought they were. I expect better of “friends and allies” than crazed racist fools!

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    Phyllis

    @BGinCHI: Oh yeah. Terrific little mystery, great characters, enough ‘typical 11 year-old girl’ stuff to keep Flavia real. Really fun, well-written books.

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    JGabriel

    @lamh34:

    I’ve been reading about this birther shit all day and I have just gotten madder and madder …

    In twenty to thirty years, this episode will be taught in classrooms as an example of how racism subtly persisted into to 21st C.

    Not a major lesson, mind you, just a sidenote in a bigger lesson about the racism of the recent past that will undoubtedly ignore or deny whatever arbitrary tribalism continues to fester as the xenophobia du jour in that future day.

    All part of our long history of incremental expansion in the franchise of equality.

    .

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    FlipYrWhig

    @lamh34: There’s a huge swathe of political commentators who apply precisely one analytical tool. Did you stand firm? If not, you caved, and hence you lost. Cenk Uygur is as knee-jerk and by-the-numbers as any other cable fathead.

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    Dee Loralei

    @scav: I really liked him as the new Sherlock. I’m assuming he’s playing the Doctor and not the creation? And will this be heavy on the comedy?

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    Shoemaker-Levy 9

    Allah is really pissed right now. Tornadoes laying waste to the Bible Belt again today. Weather Channel saying major damage in the Tuscaloosa-Birmingham area.

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